re: "Six Flags Over Jesus" sign posted on Cross Church Land - April Fools prank.

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If non religious folks wouldn't use their positions in government to force their BS agendas on people ... etc. man..

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Whoops, I see where you accidentally made a mistake here.

You thought the phrase "allow someone else to live their life" equaled "making me live my life that way too".

Allowing someone else to be gay does not equal forcing you to be gay. Now, if you choose to be gay, cool, more power to you, brother. However, how does that person living their life "force an agenda" on poor, unaffected you?

Do you also get offended if people choose to drink alcohol? We should probably ban it because your abstinence from the substance isn't enough, everyone should live like you.

Why not just live your life the way you want? If you think you'll pass the interview at the Pearly Gates by listing all the things you abstained from, then why do you care if someone else lives their life differently?

I'll never understand how letting someone else alone is equal to "oppressing you with their agenda".

It's truly a crime to have a government force religious groups to treat people equally.

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I don't go around forcing my beliefs on anyone.

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I will remember that when I try to buy a beer on Sunday.

couple questions

do liberals force their opinions on others?

do conservatives force their opinions on others?

BTW if you are trying to pick a personal religious fight with me... Nothing to fight about.

Live as you wish, I will as well. But I can also hope/pray for anyone I wish and attempt to live my life in such a way that others will see a positive in me that leads to Christ.

Will it work? For some yes, others... notta.

But if I don't try then I am a complete and utter hypocrite...

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Live as you wish, I will as well. But I can also hope/pray for anyone I wish and attempt to live my life in such a way that others will see a positive in me that leads to Christ.

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So using this, how does allowing a gay person to be gay and live a normal life that way "force the gay agenda" on you? Or letting someone buy and drink beer 7 days a week? Or smoke some weed? Or any of the other things that are apparently being forced upon you? And can you point me to where these agendas are filed so I can read them?

Do you really believe that if "they" had it "their way" they would force you to be a weed smoking, beer drinking gay person? Or work on the Sabbath or something?

Well mr Snout... You and I would agree on more than you could possibly believe.

I wrote the things on the 1st page of the thread in much jest, not completely, but much as was included the

Yes, I think homosexuality is wrong... However it is not my place to stop it but in stead try to live a life and teach what I believe to those who would listen.

I don't have a problem with Beer on sunday, or if MJ is made legal with prescription, etc...

As long as abuse isn't causing more problems for some of these folks.

And one more thing. I will never preach against being an abuser of alcohol without adding there are many more abusing food period. Obesity is a much bigger epidemic in our nation. and both are a sin in my beliefs.

The alcohol isn't the sin, the abuse of it as with anything is...

And anyone using God for only political gain is in for a "Helluva" surprise at judgment day imho.

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I don't have a problem with Beer on sunday, or if MJ is made legal with prescription, etc...

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But this is one of the things I don't understand. How could you say the second half of your sentence, without including "or if MJ AND BEERare made legal with prescription..."

Why would you ever want prescriptions for marijuana and not prescriptions for alcohol.

We have all personally known more people killed by alcohol than we know of people killed by MJ. We have all known more people who become more violent on alcohol than on MJ. I believe the stat is 10,000:1 or something of cases of domestic violence involving alcohol vs domestic violence involving MJ.

So what is it that you disagree with about MJ that you also don't disagree with for alcohol? It seems, objectively, that if one of them should be legal then it should be marijuana and not alcohol.

This coming from someone who has never used MJ or any drug and abstains from alcohol.

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I don't care what anyone does with their life as long as they stay out of mine. With that said, trying to force a belief was exactly what what was happening when people were protesting Chick fil A. Dan Cathy was asked a question and gave an honest answer. He wasn't hateful in the least and the SJW's heads nearly exploded.

There are people on both sides that try to force their beliefs on others and neither is in the right.

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It wasn't just what he said, it's that Chik-Fil-A gives a lot of money to anti-LGBT efforts. That makes a boycott pretty fair game.

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Nobody was protesting until what he said went public.

Boycotts are fine, trying to remove stores from campuses and trying to keep the company from opening new stores is over the top considering the company never discriminated against any employee.

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Yeah, weird how public comments can suddenly draw attention to the things your company is doing with its money. I think it's silly that you're trying to use his comments as the sole cause of the boycott when that is patently not the case.

A boycott is a boycott--it's meant to hurt a company's business. Trying to stop them from opening new stores seems appropriate for a boycott